Historic equity documents archived online

Jonathan Stapleton
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Papers documenting the beginning of the cult of equity investment by pension schemes have been digitised and put online by The Pensions Archive Trust.

The documents were written in the 1950s by the late pension scheme manager George Ross Goobey – who was advocating to the trustees of the Imperial Tobacco Pension Fund that the scheme should sell i...

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